Serial adder



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2 Claims. (Cl. 235-61) This invention relates to digital computers andmore particularly to carry circuits for serial adders.

One object of the invention is to eliminate feedback from the carrycircuits in serial adders.

Another object of the invention is to avoid the neces sity of resettingthe carry circuit upon the application of every pair of digits to beadded.

Another object of the invention is a serial binary adder which does notrequire an And Not gate.

Other objects of the invention relate in general to the simplificationof circuits and operation of serial adders and particularly the carrycircuits for such adders.

The carry for a serial binary adder in accordance with a specificillustrative embodiment of the invention which will be described indetail below is provided by a bistable device having two inputs. A pulseapplied to one of the inputs sets the device to one of its stable stateswhile a pulse applied to the other input sets-the device' to the otherof its stable states. These states are manifested at an output of thedevice by direct-current voltages which are arbitrarily designated 1 and0. The adder itself also has two inputs to which are applied voltagesindicating the digits to be added; these digits are similarly designated1 and 0. The adder operates in accordance with the usual binaryrelations, for example, if digits 1 and are applied to the inputs, theoutput will be a 1 with no carry; if digits 1 and 1 are applied to theadder the output will be a 0 and the carry will be a 1. The carry ineach instance adds to the succeeding pair of digits.

In accordance with the aforementioned specific embodiment, the adderrequires at each of its two inputs two voltages, one indicative of thedigit to be added and the other indicative of the opposite digit. Thesevoltages are utilized to reset the bistable device, but only when thedigits to be added are both difierent from the carry digit resultingfrom the next previous addition. For all other combinations of inputsand carry digits, the bistable device remains quiescent. A feature ofthis carry circuit is that no feedback is employedthe carry beingcontrolled directly by the input digits; it has therefore beendesignated a direct carry.

The illustrative embodiments of the invention about to be describedemploy various types of gates. By way of definition, an n controlthreshold r gate is a device which may be stimulated or energized by anycombination of n inputs and which responds or produces an output nitqedStates Patent 0 i 2,851,219. Patented Sept. 9, 1958 ICC produces anoutput only if one and only one input is enabled at any one time. Thespecific gates used herein for illustrative purposes are generally asdescribed in my copending application Serial No. 198,688, filed December1, 1950 which issued on April 21, 1953 as Patent 2,636,133.

Other objects, features and principles of the present invention may bebetter understood from a consideration of the following detaileddescription when read in accordance with the attached drawings in which:

Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate by block schematic diagram a serial binaryadder employing principles of the present invention;

Fig. 3 illustrates schematically details of an adder of the type shownin Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 shows by block schematic diagram another type of serial adder towhich principles of the present invention have been applied; and

Fig. 5 illustrates graphical representations employed in the otherfigures of the drawings.

There is shown in Fig. 1 a serial adder adapted to add the digitsappearing at the output of the two shift registers 11 and 12. Twodiscrete voltages appear at the two output terminals 13-15 and 1416 ofeach shift register which may be either of opposite polarity or merelydifferent magnitudes of the same polarity. For present purposes, thesevoltages will be assumed to be of opposite polarity so that one outputterminal of each shift register will show a plus voltage while the otherterminal shows a negative voltage. Further, for present purposes a plusvoltage will be assumed to represent the digit 1 and a negative voltagethe digit 0. The upper output terminals 13 and 14 of each registerdisplay the polarities indicative of the digits to be added while thelower terminals 15 and 16 display the opposite polarities to thoseappearing at terminals 13 and 14, respectively. The

when any r inputs or stimuli are impressed simuldigits to be added areeach applied as separate inputs to both a three-control threshold threegate 17 and a l-only gate 18, the latter also having three inputs. Thegate 17 will produce an output only when the three inputs are the digit1, i. e., voltages indicative of the digit 1, and the gate 18 willproduce an output only when one and only one input is the digit 1, theoutputs produced in both cases being indicative of the digit 1.

The operation of the l-only gate may be better understood by referringto Fig. 2. The gate 18 itself is made up of three gates 21, 22, and 23having their outputs tied together and each having one enabling inputand two inhibiting inputs; the nature of the inputs may be understood byreferring to Fig. 5. The three inputs to the 1-only gate are eachapplied to the enabling input of one gate and the inhibiting inputs ofthe other two gates as shown in Fig. 2. By this combination each inputpulse will enable one of the elemental gates but will inhibit the othertwo. There will therefore be an output only if one pulse is applied toany'input at any one time. The illustrative circuit of Fig. 2 assumesthat the enabling and inhibiting controls are operated by pulses of thesame polarity or magnitude. Pulse inverters may be included in anobvious manner, for example, in series with the inhibiting inputs, ifpulses of opposite polarity are required to operate the two types ofcontrols.

A voltage indicative of the carry digit appears at the output of thebistable multivibrator 28 and is applied to an input of gate 17 as wellas an input of gate 18; the gates 17 and 18, therefore, each receive atthree inputs, respectively, the two digits to be added plus the carrydigit. The output voltages of the multivibrator 28 are similar to theoutput voltages of the shift registers 11 and 12. The outputs of thegates 17 and 18 are combined in a first enabling input of a coincidencegate 24 whose resulting output is applied to an output circuit 25.

3 When the output of either gate 17 or gate 18 is a voltage indicatingthe digit 1, this digit will be transmitted to the output 25 undercontrol of a timing pulse from source 29 which is applied to a secondenabling input of gate 24 via delay 31.

The carry circuit comprises the two three-control threshold three gates26 and 27 and the bistable multivibrator or flip-flop 28. Multivibrator28 may be termed the carry register since it registers, and indicates byits output voltage, the carry digit. The gates 26 and 27 are bothdesigned to be enabled by positive voltages, i. e., by digit 1 voltages.Neglecting for the moment the timing pulses applied to the inputs of thegates 26 and 27 from the timing pulse source 29, the gate 26 has appliedto it the digits to be added which appear at the terminals 13 and 14while the gate 27 has applied to it the digits appearing at the outputof each register other than the digits to be added, i. e., the digitsappearing at terminals 15 and 16. The output of the gate 26 is appliedto the set 1 input of the bistable multivibrator 28 and the output ofthe gate 27 is applied to the set input of the bistable device. A pulseapplied to the set 1 input of the bistable device 28 will set the devicein its stable state which produces the digit 1 at its output, unlessalready in this state, while a pulse applied to the set 0 input will setit in its other stable state unless already in the latter state. Byneglecting the timing pulses, the gates 26 and 27 may for presentpurposes be considered as two-control threshold two gates. It may thusbe seen that if the digits to be added appearing at terminals 13 and14are both 1s, the gate 26 will respond with an output which will triggerthe bistable device 28 to its stable state represented by a 1 at itsoutput unless it was already in this state. When the digits appearing atterminals 13 and 14 are both ls the digits appearing at terminals 15 and16 will be both Os, but as previously mentioned the latter arerepresented by voltages of negative polarity which will not enable thegate 27. However, when the digits to be added at terminals 13 and 14 areboth Os, the digits at terminals 15 and 16 are both ls which will enablethe gate 27 and produce an output which will set the bistable device toits stable stage represented by a 0 at its output unless it was alreadyin this state. The binary character of the digit stored in the carryregister 28 and hence the output voltage of the carry register ischanged, therefore, only:

1. If set to 0 and the input digits to be added are both P; or 2. If setto 1 and the input digits are both Os.

Briefly, the operation of the circuit of Fig. 1, still neglecting thetiming pulses is as follows: assuming the carry as represented by theoutput of the bistable device 28 to be set to 0, if the input digits tobe added are l and 0, the l-only gate 18 will respondand produce a 1 atits output which is transmitted through the coincidence gate 24 to theoutput circuit 25; neither gate 26 nor 27 is enabled to change thecondition of the carry since the input digits are unlike. If the inputdigits are both Os neither gate 17 nor 18 will be enabled nor will thecarry circuit be changed since the input digits, although alike, are thesame as the digit already appearing at the output of the carry device.If the input digits are both 1s neither gate 17 nor 18 will be enabled,the former since it responds only if one and onlyone input is enabledand the latter because it requires three simultaneous inputs to producean output. The gate 26, however, will respond and set the flip-flop 28to l. The carry digit is then added to the succeeding pair of digits.Assuming the next pair to be 1, 0), the adder output will be 0 (1+1-I-0)and the output of the carry will remain at 1. The results of otherinputs will appear in an obvious manner.

Programming is provided by pulses from the timing source 29 whichcontrol the sequence of operation. First, a pulse is applied to each ofthe shift registers to set up the digits to be added at their outputs 13and 14. This same pulse, delayed by the delay circuit 31 is applied asan enabling input to the coincidence gate 24 to read out the result ofthe addition of these digits to the carry digit from the previousaddition, which result appears at the combined outputs of the gates 17and 18. The same pulse further delayed by the delay circuit 32 isapplied as an enabling input to each of the gates 26 to reset the carrycircuit, if necessary. The sequence of operations, briefly, is:

1. Set up; 2. Read out; and 3. Reset carry, if necessary.

The circuit details of an adder in accordance with the block diagram ofFig. 1 are illustrated by Fig. 3. The inputs to the adder have beenrepresented as bistable devices 41 and 42, each of which may comprise,for example, a single stage shift register or which may merely be thelast stage of a multistage shift register. To each of the shiftregisters is fed information from a pair of sources 43 and 44 throughthe gates 45 and 46 in the form of voltages representing the digits tobe added. This information is in the form of numbers in binary code.Digits of equal significance from the two sources are fed to the adderin ascending order of significance under the control of the gates 45 and46.

The shift registers 41 and 42, or storage units as that may be deemed,each comprises a bistable transistor multivibrator having twotransistors 47 and 48 with cross connected collector 49 and baseelectrodes 50. Transistors are now well known in the art and aredescribed for example in Patent 2,524,035 to W. H. Bardeen and I.Brattain dated October 3, 1950. Negative bias is applied to thecollector electrodes 49 through the resistors 51 and 52. Emitter bias isderived by the bleeder resistors 60 through which each emitter electrode59 is connected to ground. Triggering voltages are applied to the baseelectrodes 50 through the asymmetric devices or diodes 53 and 54 andappear as voltages across the input resistors 55 and 56. Thesemultivibrators operate generally analogously to bistable vacuum tubemultivibrators having cross connected plates and grids, the baseelectrodes 50 corresponding to grids and the collector electrodes 49corresponding to plates or anodes. The multivibrators 41 and 42 areoperable with either positive or negative pulses but are shown asoperated by positive pulses.

Assuming the upper transistor 47 of the multivibrator 41 to beconducting, a positive pulse applied to the base electrode of transistor47 reduces the collector current flowing through resistor 51. Thiscauses a negative pulse to be applied to the base electrode of the othertransistor 48 by way of the resistor 57 condenser 58 combination causingthe latter to begin to draw current and raise the potential of thecollector electrode 49 of transistor 48. This makes the base electrodeof the upper transistor still more positive and eventually, thetransistor 48 is conducting and the transistor 47 is cut off. Triggeringis also aided by the common connection to ground of the emitterelectrodes 59 through their respective bleeder resistors 60 since theemitter to base resistance of the conducting transistor is quite low.For example, when transistor 47 is conducting a positive pulse appliedto its base electrode 50 also appears on the emitter electrode of theother transistor, thus promoting conduction in the latter.

In a similar manner, a positive pulse applied to the lower transistor 48when the latter is conducting will also cause the conducting states ofthe two transistors to reverse. The diodes 53 and 54 isolate the input,i. e., the base electrode 50 of the conducting unit since they arebiased in their high resistance condition by current flow through theresistors 55 and 56. For example, if the upper transistor is conducting,pulses applied to diode 53 of a magnitude less than the voltage dropacross resistor 55 will have no etfect on either transistor.

Assuming the multivibrators to be symmetrical, the potentials at theoutput terminals 1315 and 1416 will alternate between two valuesdepending upon which of the transistors is conducting. In theillustrative example shown, these two values will both be negativevoltages when referred to ground, but for the present purposes thelesser of the two negative potentials will be referred to as positive,the term being used in a relative manner. Further, this positivepotential represents the digit 1 and the negative potential the digit 0.

As will be seen, it is the potentials on the upper output terminals ofeach multivibrator which represent the digits to be added. Since it isthe conducting unit which produces the positive voltage at its outputterminal, it may be seen that a positive pulse applied to the uppertransistor 47 of the unit 41, for example, will produce the digit 0voltage at terminal 13 while a positive pulse applied to the transistors48, from the sources 43, will produce the digit 1 voltage at terminal13.

The sequence of operations is started by a positive pulse from thetiming pulse source 29 which is applied to the upper transistor 47 ofeach multivibrator, causing these transistors to produce potentialsindicative of the digit 0, at terminals 13 and 14. The same pulse fromthe source 29 also operates the gates 45 and 46 to permit the next pairof digits from the source to be applied to the lower transistors of eachpair. If these digits are lsv as manifested by positive pulses, theconducting states of the transistors will reverse, thereby producing lsto be added at the terminals 13 and 14. Zeros, represented by either nopulse or a negative pulse from either of the sources will not disturbthe units to which applied and hence, if zeros are applied, the Os willremain at the output terminals 13 and 14.

The units just described are merely illustrative of one method ofproducing at each of two pairs of terminals two voltages, one of whichrepresents the digit to be added, and the other of which represents theopposite digit. A complete shift register might comprise, for example a'stages each similar to the units 41 and 42, where d is the number ofdigits in the number to be added. These units might be fedsimultaneously in parallel with the least significant digit being fed tothe most right-hand unit. A series of shift pulses, simultaneouslyapplied to each stage of each shift register in the same manner as thepulses from the time source 29 are applied to the upper transistors 47,of the illustrative units shown, would advance the digits from left toright in a well-known manner so that digits of equal significance wouldsuccessively appear at the outputs of the two shift registers to beadded. When all the d digits are added the register would be cleared, i.e., each stage would be set to 0 and two new numbers of d digits eachwould be applied to the registers.

The gates 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26 and 27 employed in the circuit of Fig.3 are switching type gates of the type disclosed in my aforementionedcopending application. They are termed switching type gates incontradistinction to transmission type gates since their output bears nonecessary relation to the inputs other than in time. Each of these gatescomprises a plurality of asymmetrically conducting devices, hereintermed diodes, which may comprise, for example, either devices of thegermanium crystal rectifier type or vacuum tube diodes, having liketerminals connected to a common junction point p. Referring specificallyto the gate 26 which is similar in most respects to the other gatesthere is applied to the electrodes of the diodes 61 other than theelectrodes connected to the junction point p a small negative bias bythe batteries 62, the effect of whichis to bias the diodes in their lowresistance or conducting condition. While in this condition the currentfrom the battery 63, which is substantially larger than the batteries62, will flow through the conducting diodes and bias the output diode 64in its high resistance condition. This is aided by a small battery 65connected in series with a resistor 66 which applies a positive bias tothe electrode of the output diode 64 remote from the junction poin pmaking the terminal 67 more positive than the junction point p in theabsence of a coincidence of input pulses. Control voltages are appliedto each of the control diodes 61 and more specifically to the electrodesof the diodes 61 remote from the junction point p. If one of the diodesis cut oif by an input control voltage the current from the battery 63will continue to flow through the diodes which remain in the conductingcondition. The potential of point p will not rise appreciably and morespecifically will not rise sufficiently to bias the output diode 64 inits low resistance condition if the batteries 62 are sufficiently large.If positive pulses are simultaneously applied to the three controldiodes 61 to bias them in their high resistance condition, the potentialof point p will rise sufficiently to bias the output diode 64 in its lowresistance condition. Current from the battery will then flow throughthe output diode 64 and produce a positive pulse at the terminal 67 dueto the voltage drop across the resistor 66. The gate 26, as shown, is athree-control threshold three gate having means to apply three inputsignals, one to each of the control diodes and producing an outputsignal only if the three input signals are simultaneously present.

An input control is made an inhibiting control by reversing the polarityof the small biasing battery 62 associated with that control as is shownby the batteries 62' in the gates 21, 22 and 23 and by applying inputpulses of the opposite polarity which in the disclosed embodiment meansthe digit 0 or more negative pulses. For example, the diode 61 of gate21 is normally non-conducting so that if an enabling (digit 1) pulse isapplied to the input 68, an output pulse will be produced. However, if anegative pulse is applied to diodes 61 to bias it in its low resistancecondition, the gate is inhibited and will produce no output pulse eventhough an enabling input is applied to input 68. Each of the gates 21through 23, which comprise the l-only gate, have two inhibiting controlsand one enabling control. The control voltages for these gates appear atthe outputs of the three multi-vibrators which produce not only thedigit voltage to be added at one terminal, viz. terminals 13, 14 and 69,respectively, but also the opposite digit voltages at another terminal,viz. terminals 15, 16 and 70. Enabling control voltages for gates 21, 22and 23 are thus derived from terminals 13, 14, and 69 of the flipfiops41, 42, and 28, respectively, and inhibiting voltages from terminals 15,16 and 70. As previously indicated, all control voltages could'bederived from either set of three terminals 13, 14 and 69, or, 15, 16 and70, using pulse inverters to derive the opposite control voltages.

Since the voltages representing the digits 1 and 0 are both negativewith the digit 0 voltage being the more negative of the two, each of thegates is made to respond to negative voltages; the digit 1 pulses areused for enabling and the digit 0 pulses for inhibiting. The resistorsand batteries associated with each of the gates are thus proportioned soas to make the junction point p normally negative by the proper amountwith respect to ground so that the digit 1 pulses, even though negative,

. are less negative than the potential of point p and will render thediode to which applied non-conducting.

The storage unit of the carry circuit comprises a transistormultivibrator similar to the two already described with the potential atthe output terminal 69 indicating the carry digit.

The operation of the circuit is the same as that described in connectionwith Fig. l. A pulse from the timing pulse source 29 initially sets upthe digits to be added at the output terminals 13 and 14 of the storageI units 41 and 42 with the voltages at the other terminals 15 and 16representing the opposite digits. These are direct-current potentialswhich remain on the output terminals until a subsequent pulse from thetiming pulse source alters the conducting states of the multivibrators.

The same pulse delayed by the delay circuit 31 is next applied to theoutput coincidence gate 24. If the digit 1 is present at the output ofthe three-control threshold three gate which it will be if the inputdigits are both 1s and if the carry digit stored is also a l, or if theoutput of the l-only gate is a 1, which it will be if the input digitscomprise a l and a 0, and there is no carry from the precedingoperation, the digit 1 will be applied to the output circuit 25. Theoperation just described is termed the read out operation.

The next step in the sequence of operations is to determine if thenature of the carry digit stored at the output of the bistable device isto be changed. This is accomplished by the same pulse from the timingpulse source further delayed by the delay circuit 32 which is applied toan enabling control of each of the three-control threshold three gates26 6and 27 to render non-conducting the diodes 61 to which applied. Ifthe digits at the terminals 13 and 14 are both 1s, the other two diodesof the gate 26 will also be rendered non-conducting. This coincidencewill produce a positive pulse at the output of the gate 26 which appearsat the set 1 terminal 67 of the carry storage unit 28. This latter pulsetriggers the lower transistor 83 into the conducting state so as to setthe output terminal 69 to 1 unless it was already in a conducting statein which case it will remain unchanged. In a similar manner, if theinput digits are both Os the gate 27 will produce a positive outputpulse and set the output of the carry storage unit to unless it werealready at 0. If the digits to be added, in groups; represent successivenumbers, the carry may be reset to 0 at the end of each pair of numbersby a pulse from the source 29 over lead 80.

Referring now to Fig. 4, the principles of the present invention arealso applicable to serial adders of other types. The adder of Fig. 4 isof the type which comprises two half adders. The first of the halfadders determines the partial sum and the second half adder the finalsum. The And gate 71 and the And Not gate 72 comprise a half adder. Thistype of adder is described, for example, in a book entitled CalculatingInstruments and Machines, by D. R. Hartree, Illinois University Press1949 at page 104, Fig. 58. In contrast to the circuit shown by Hartreethe circuit of Fig. 4 requires no feedback and permits the carry storageunit, i. e., the multivibrator 73 to remain quiescent unless its outputis a O and two ls are received, or unless its output is a 1 and two Osare received.

The operation of the bistable multivibrator 73 and its associated inputcoincidence gates 71 and 74 which, respectively, set the multivibrator73 output to l and 0 is the same as the carry circuit described inconnection with Fig. 1. The digits to be added appear at the outputterminals of the shift registers 75 and 76 and are each applied to theinput of the And gate 71 and also the input of an And Not gate 72. Thelatter gate is also described in more detail in the aforementionedHussey application and produces an output only if one of the inputsignals and only one is a 1. The input digits to the And Not gate areeach applied through delay circuits 77 to the enabling inputs of thegates 78. They are also applied by means of a signal inverter 79 to theinhibiting control of the gate 78 whose enabling control is associatedwith the opposite input. It may thus be seen that if both inputs are lsboth of the gates will be inhibited and no output will be produced fromthe.

And Not gate. If only one of the inputs is a 1, it will appear at theoutput terminal 81. The outputs of the And Not gate 72 and the bistabledevice 73 are then applied to a second anticoincidence or And Not gate 880, similar to the first one which will likewise produce an output onlyif one of the inputs, and only one, is a 1. The output of gate 72 atterminal 81 represents the partial sum, while the output ofmultivibrator 73, delayed one pulse period (plus a delay to compensatefor the delays 77) by delay 82, represents the carry digit from the nextprevious addition. The output of the gate 80 is the sum of the inputdigits.

Although the invention has been described as relating to specificembodiments other embodiments and modifications will readily occur toone skilled in the art, so that the invention should not be deemedlimited to the abovedescribed specific illustrations.

What is claimed is:

1. A serial adder for adding successive pairs of binary digitscomprising first and second shift register means being adapted torepresent digits of one kind by a first output voltage and digits ofanother kind by a second output voltage, a first gate having threeinputs and adapted to produce an output when one and only one of saidinputs is enabled by voltages representative of digits of said one kind,a second gate having three inputs and adapted to produce an output onlywhen all three of said inputs are enabled simultaneously by voltagesrepresentative of digits of said one kind, means for applying saidoutput voltages from both of said first and second shift register meansto first and second inputs of each of said first and second gates, meansfor deriving a. voltage representative of the carry digit comprising abistable device producing an output indicative of a digit of said onekind when in one of its stable states and indicative of a digit of saidother kind when in its other stable state, means responsive to saidfirst ouput voltage from both of said first and second shift registermeans for setting said bistable device in said one stable state if insaid other stable state, means responsive to said second output voltagefrom both said first and second shift register means for setting saidbistable device in said other state if in said one state, means forapplying the output of said bistable device to the third input of eachof said first and second gates, and means for combining the outputs ofsaid first and second gates.

2. The combination according to claim 1 wherein said combining means andsaid bistable device setting means are normally disabled, and a sourceof timing pulses, means under control of said timing pulses forsuccessively shifting pairs of digits to be added to the outputs of saidfirst and second shift register means, means also under control of saidtiming pulses for enabling said combining means a predetermined intervalafter the shifting of each pair of digits, and means also under controlof said timing pulses for enabling said bistable device setting means afurther predetermined interval after the enabling of said combiningmeans.

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